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Projects & Money
Launches, upgrades, funding, DeFi.
- Polymarket paid influencers to stage fabricated winning bets on dummy prediction sites.
- CME's legal push to classify perps as swaps moves to the next stage.
- Andre Cronje and two co-directors step down from the Sonic Labs board.
- MiCA 2.0 consultation opens with stablecoins and DeFi as the central targets.
- Japan's Prime Minister frames Bitcoin as a generational economic opportunity.
- Pump.fun launches a bounty platform with extreme real-world tasks.
- Franklin Templeton files dividend-to-bitcoin ETFs.
- Base sets 25 June for its Beryl upgrade.
- Ethereum faces a potential core development funding gap.
- Igloo building a path for crypto tokens to list on NYSE as registered securities.
- Ethereum Foundation loses its co-executive director.
- Morgan Stanley files amended ETH and SOL ETF disclosures with the lowest fees in the market.
- Fidelity launches a GENIUS Act-aligned money market fund for stablecoin reserve assets.
- Kraken integrates Solana DEX trading directly into its core app.
- Trace Finance closes a $32 million Series A for stablecoin payments infrastructure.
- Fidelity moves into stablecoin reserve management, joining a crowding trade.
- Satori Finance shuts down, another perps DEX fails to outlast the bear.
- Tether quietly winds down Alloy and the gold-backed aUSDT product.
- Coinbase pitches itself as the everything exchange with tokenised stocks, options, and an AI advisor.
- Robinhood cuts 10 percent of staff as crypto revenue cools.
- Ripple buys into Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E to push RLUSD across Africa.
- World Liberty Financial is close to an OCC federal trust charter for USD1.
- Bitmine adds $136M in ETH to push holdings past 5.6 million tokens.
- Standard Chartered initiates on UNI with a $100 price target by 2030.
- Spot HYPE ETFs approach $900M in cumulative volume within days of launch.
- Paradigm leads a $9M seed into Latin American stablecoin payments app El Dorado.
- Mining difficulty drops 10%, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026.
- Aerodrome retools its liquidity layer into a prediction market.
- World Liberty Financial puts USD1 inside the UFC Octagon at a White House event.
- Crypto funds disagree on whether the Bitcoin bottom is in.
- White House gives Anthropic 90 minutes to pull Claude Fable and Mythos models.
- Morpho closes $175 million round as onchain credit becomes the VC consensus trade.
- Zcash gets a clean bill of health from Anthropic's Mythos audit.
- Wall Street is moving Ethereum from pilot to production, says Etherealize.
- BlackRock's yield-bearing bitcoin ETF files 8-A, launch pencilled in for next week.
- Exodus and Ondo put 200-plus tokenised stocks and ETFs on Solana.
- Ethena Labs commits $250 million to Securitize's tokenised AAA CLO fund on Solana.
- Metaplanet acquires Japanese securities firm Siiibo for $13 million.
- Digital Asset raises $355M from a16z to scale the Canton Network.
- Coinbase launches dedicated accounts for AI agents to trade and pay autonomously.
- Tether leads a $1.4B round into German humanoid robotics firm Neura.
- Citi begins offering tokenised private-company shares to wealthy and institutional clients.
- Tether leads a $1.4 billion round into humanoid robotics.
- Mastercard launches Agent Pay to let autonomous AI settle transactions.
- Botanix shuts its Bitcoin layer-2 after four years.
- Japan's three megabanks target a joint stablecoin by March 2027.
- Morpho raises $175M from Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit to build an open credit network.
- Janus Henderson takes an ENA position and eyes Ethena-linked investment products.
- Circle launches cirBTC on Ethereum to compete with Coinbase's cbBTC.
- Aave proposes a new risk framework in the wake of the KelpDAO exploit.
- Tokenized equities cross $5.5 billion as Bybit lists SpaceX IPO access.
- Bitmine put $207 million into Ethereum at the lows.
- MetaMask shipped a self-custodial wallet built for AI agents.
- Aave's founder defended the protocol after an $8.45 billion deposit run.
- JPMorgan says Strategy needs to rebuild dollar reserves, cuts Clarity Act odds below 50%.
- Saylor posts 'add more dots' hint as Strategy trades $11.7B underwater.
- Bybit lists tokenised SpaceX IPO shares via Kraken's xStocks infrastructure.
- HTX suspends WLFI and USD1 trading, force-converts user balances to USDT.
- America's largest banks are jointly building a digital currency network to halt deposit outflows to crypto and money-market alternatives.
- HTX to delist USD1 after World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses citing UK sanctions.
- Meta is paying creators in stablecoins, but the off-ramp problem is squarely the recipient's.
- Hyperion DeFi unwinds $29 million in HYPE positions as its USDH stablecoin winds down.
- Securitize clears its SEC registration statement, opening the path to NYSE listing.
- BitMine prices preferred shares with a 9.5% dividend in an upsized offering.
- Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement via SBC on the Canton Network.
- Crypto Council for Innovation launches a vault-focused regulatory coalition.
- JPMorgan, BofA and Citi form a consortium to launch a tokenised deposit network by early 2027.
- Coinbase closes the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using Bitcoin as collateral.
- Radiant Capital winds down after failing to recover from its 2024 hack.
- Mastercard deepens stablecoin settlement coverage via USDC and RLUSD.